Day 27 - St Come d’Olt to Estaing

After a good sleep in the convent and the expected petit dejeuner of yogurt, bread, jam and coffee we said goodbye to the Sisters and set off in the rain 🙁. Another long one - nearly 22 km.
we had a lot of uphill climbs and met Cliff who was initially irritating with his advice, but we got chatting further and he was actually pleasant enough. Simon had a sadness as he lost his jolly Isle of Man tt beanie. We had to replace it in Espalian - a town we passed through as he couldn’t risk a chill on a cool morning.
We then found the omelette cat woman who fed us lunch with coffee.
We set off bravely again and met the cake woman on the hill who demanded we try her wares. We agreed to a piece of banana cake and gave a donation. She was overwhelmed with this and insisted we had orange cake too! We were sent on our way up the hill with many pilgrim blessings from her.
Obviously she knew about the mountain we were about to climb and the carbs and sugar rush from her cakes would help us ever upwards!
We were then subjected to a ferocious pummelling in the rain, where the gullies became entrenched in mud.
We went slip sliding away trying our best not to end up on our backsides. Simon had to fight bushes to help us bypass huge lakes that had formed on the path. 7 hours later we made it into Estaing, across the pretty bridge into the town. We were filthy, smelly but happy to have made it to sit and have a beer and reflect.
We have made it to our apartment for the evening- following yet another French phone call 📞
We have charming views over the medieval church and are off now to find some food 🥰Read more